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I haven't hit the cap and I won't since I'm on WiFi most of the time. However from what I understand it's a hard cap and once you hit it your data and MMS since it uses data is also cut off. Also their is no way to buy extra data or anything so once you hit that limit you are shut off from data until your new monthly cycle date.

Yes, it's enforced. I've already read of a few users being cut off until their next cycle due to hitting the cap. You can't do anything data or even MMS. So yeah don't hit that limit you will be cut off for sure.

Re: THE OFFICIAL NET 10 1.5gb LIMIT FOR AT&T SIM DISCUSSION THREAD!

In a weird twist after refilling my account I was hit with throttling on the 1.5 gb I have now because I'm considered a heavy duty user Cs made it seem like I was breaking their rules but I asked numerous times if I used over my limit then you would have turned off my data service the cs and manager assured me that I would bw throttled until I refilled again.

I can verify that your data indeed just shuts off (you won't even see a data symbol anymore, just your signal strength and network name.)

I believe the reason they don't want to sell additional data is because they still have unlimited plastered everywhere... it would just be too confusing to the masses to try to explain that you can have unlimited on every network but AT&T (and considering how many people on these plans believe that net10 / straight talk are their own company and have their own towers is amazing.)

For the people who use AT&T branded Net10 phones who have no idea what network they run off of this would be very confusing to them. Just because we know about it doesn't mean that 99.9% of the typical users out there will have a clue.

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I'm going to hazard a guess that its because their system isn't setup to allow it. The computer wasn't programmed to allow re-uping early on the "unlimited" plan because nobody should ever need to do it. They don't want to spend the money to reprogram the computer, and so you just can't.

Originally Posted by Matt92

Can anyone explain why they choose to not let us add a new service card early to get data started again?
Just a question.

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I have blocked some Hofo users and so I don't see and won't respond to messages from them.

I can verify that your data indeed just shuts off (you won't even see a data symbol anymore, just your signal strength and network name.)

They do something funky with the APN... I've noticed that occasionally my Nexus 4 thinks the APN is captive portaled and tells me I need to "sign into the network HOME" like if I was on captive portaled WiFi then it goes away a few seconds later. Also, sometimes I just have no data.

I'll put up with it for the price, there's nothing else like it, but it probably has to do with how they're shutting users off at 1.5GB and their accounting system. It sucks.

Given all the complaints about throttling on ST right now, I'd guess that at&t is just continuing to have network problems, as they did right after the BYOP SIM program was launched in the first place and again later the same year.

Originally Posted by Jordan T

They do something funky with the APN... I've noticed that occasionally my Nexus 4 thinks the APN is captive portaled and tells me I need to "sign into the network HOME" like if I was on captive portaled WiFi then it goes away a few seconds later. Also, sometimes I just have no data.

I'll put up with it for the price, there's nothing else like it, but it probably has to do with how they're shutting users off at 1.5GB and their accounting system. It sucks.

Given all the complaints about throttling on ST right now, I'd guess that at&t is just continuing to have network problems, as they did right after the BYOP SIM program was launched in the first place and again later the same year.

No, I just switched from AT&T. The difference is sudden and staggering. The tfdata APN is vastly inferior to phone (that's the name of the AT&T APN).

Bottomline. For value, The Net10 option still gives the most data for the least amount as an Att option. It's just not unlimited anymore. I go with Good 2Go at the fifty dollar point and Red pocket at the two gig point as alternates to Net10. Straight Talk sims are absolutely not worth the seventy five dollars they are demanding on ebay for them.